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SDGs AT SUB-NATIONAL LEVEL:Roles and good practices for sub-national governments in relation to the SDG/post-2015 processes
UNOSD, SDTFRegional Breakout Discussions - Europe
Dr. Ingeborg NiestroyIISD Associate
Public Strategy for Sustainable [email protected]
Comparative studies on SD governance / strategies:
I.N., Sustaining Sustainability 2004 11 countries / EU
IISD / FFU / GIZ 2004 19 countries / global
ESDN from 2007 (with regular updates)
online country sheets / (28) EU
Bertelsmann / IISD preparatory work for RMP
2012 32 countries and regions (sub-national) / global
ASEF, Asia-Europe Strategies 2012 Aggregated / 2 regions
Bertelsmann / I.N., RMP 2013 4 countries, 1 region (sub-national) / global
Bertelsmann / FFU, SDSs for the sub-national level (Germany), international study
2013 5 countries, 5 regions (sub-national) / global, but …
What is good practice for vertical coordination:
1)Links between the levels on the mere document side:SDSs refer to the strategies of the upper level, translate and break down goals and targets?2)Not only top-down, but also bottom up? How much does the sub-national level develop own action?3)SDSs refer to the lower level: national to sub-national (and local),sub-national to local level?4)What are the coordination mechanisms, e.g. framework laws, targets that need to be broken down? What are the mechanisms that lower level needs, capabilities and ambitions are taken up in an upper level strategy?5)What is the style of the vertical coordination? How does the cooperation of governments and administration of different levels look like: Formal rules for participation in decision-making (e.g. in federal states, EU)? Are there more cooperative mechanisms in place, such as consultation committees?
Good practice for vertical coordination (so far):
National level SDSs:•Joint SD strategy (“national”: federal and regional level ): Austria•Emphasizing the local level, incl. bottom-up approaches:Finland, France, (Germany) / Bhutan, Ecuador
Regions (sub-national):•Tyrol (AT), Aargau (CH)
Regions with good practice, but… :•Basque Country, Catalonia (ES), Flanders (BE), Wales (UK), German Laender (varied)
Soft steering:•Greening the European Semester (economic policies of the EU MSs)
3 themes with collaboration: public procurement, indicators (but still disconnected), land take (no reference to national target)
no reference to national SDS indicators
but totally outdated
no link to the national or regional level
no link to the national or regional level
Conclusions:
Better links are needed; even on the mere document side rather rarely done
Top-down framework and bottom-up feeding in (with policies and action)
Sub-national level: D.Y.O.T.
Avoid one-off projects; build in a capacity building strand from the onset, aim at scaling-up good practice and lessons learned, go for partnership approaches with effective duration
National level: encourage, support, foster sub-national level (good for implementation)
Establish functioning mechanisms (groups, bodies) for collaboration, deliberation, strategy and action plan development and monitoring
Have metagovernance in mind
Insights on Governance for SD (2004):"and – and" .. "mix/balance/moving towards ‘ends’" diversity
Leadership(is performed)
Ownership(is fostered)
P
FIND
Top-down Bottom-upP FINB
Firmness FlexibilityALLUKD
Framework document
Actionfocus
NLFIND
D UK S
P
FIND
Top-down Bottom-upP FINB
Firmness,Monitoring
FlexibilityALLUKD
Actionfocus
NLFIND
D UK S
Niestroy, 10 April 2014, UNOSD SDTF, Korea
Niestroy, 10 April 2014, UNOSD SDTF, Korea
... found in other theory development
• "Metagovernance" (Meuleman, 2008)
- smart mix of the three basic governance styles: hierarchy, market, network- adapted to specific phases + situations
• "TransGov" (IASS / In 't Veld, 2011; Meuleman, 2012)
- social reflexivity- knowledge democracy / transdisciplinarity- 'second modernity' (Beck, 1992): - 'and' ... 'and' (not 'or') - diversity rather than simplicity combined: 'transgovernance'
• "Balance of the opposites" (Heraklit / Cornélis, 2012)